Fare-register.



J. E. OHMER.

FARE REGISTER.

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Patented Mar. 2, 1909.

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J. F. OHMER.

FARE REGISTER.

nrmcmmy TILED JAN. 28, 1907.

Patented Mar. 2, 1909.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN F. OHMER, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TOEMER FARE REGISTER COMPANY, OF

. ROCHESTER, NEW YORK;

FARE-RE GISTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 2, 1909.

Original application filed January 11, 1904, Serial No. 188,430. Divided and this application filed January 28, 1907.

Serial No. 354,472.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN F. OHMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fare-Registers; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This application is divided from my pending ap lication for improvements in fare registers filed Jan. 11, 1904, Serial No. 188,430.

The invention relates to new and useful improvements in the type of fare registers heretofore patented to myself and to myself 'ointly with Hiram Tyler, among which may e mentioned re-issue No. 11,681, of July 19, 1898; re-issue No. 11,842 of July 17, 1900; No. 715,129 of Dec. 2, 1902, No. 649,322 of Feb. 25, 1902, No. 646,757, April3, 1900, No. 718,869, of Jan. 20, 1903.

Means have heretofore been provided as is evidenced from the patents above enumerated, for taking statements or records showing a detail classification of the fares collected and also designations of the conductor or other persons taking such statements, to gether with the dates thereof.

The present invention provides means for indicating the direction or travel of the car and also printing the direction on each statement or record taken from the register, so that each record so taken will not only be identified with the date upon which it was taken, and with the conductor or person taking the same, but will also be identified with the particular direction of travel of the car.

Preceding a detailed description of the invention, reference is made to the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1, is a front elevation of the mechanism of the register removed from the casing. Fig. '2, is a vertical sectional elevation on the line m:r of Fig. 1. Fig. 3, is a detail detached view of the observation wheels operating in connection with the printing wheels from which the time and the weather condition statements are obtained. Figs. 4 and 5, are detached views of the dial. Fig. 6, is an illustration of a statement such as has been hereinbefore referred to.

In a detail description of the invention, similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts.

1 designates the supporting framework for the various parts, in the upper portion of which is mounted a series of three trip wheels 2, otherwise known as total counters, and which are utilized for counting and indicating the number of fares or passengers for each trip or for any number of trips. These wheels 2 are mounted upon shaft 6 and upon the same shaft is mounted a toothed pinion 4 which meshes with a lower pinion 3 the latter pinion imparting movement to the direction indicator 22 through a pin 22. The pin 22 is on one side of the wheel 3 and projects into an elongated slot 22 in the side plate 3 of the direction indicator, said side plate being pivoted at 22 to the upper part of the framework. The direction indicator is operated from the shaft 6 through gear wheels 4-5 and the hand wheel 5 The gear wheel 5 is mounted upon an auxiliary shaft 5 parallel with the shaft 6 in suitable bearings ab, the former of which provides a bearing for one end of the shaft 6; the hand wheel 5 is fixed to the shaft 5 and lies on the outside of the casing. In setting the wheels 2 to zero through the movement of the hand wheel 5, the direction indicator is likewise set to a position to indicate the direction of the trip.

The ratio of movement of the gear wheel 5 is approximately two and a quarter revolution to one revolution of the wheel 4-in order to prevent a needless rotation of the latter wheel and a consequent tendency to cause an overthrow of the wheels 2, and further, by imparting to the gear wheel 4, no greater speed than is necessary to set the wheels 2 and the direction indicator, the parts are relieved from any undue strain. The direction indicator is connected with a printing wheel 28 designed to furnish a print or impression upon the records as shown in Fig. 6, corresponding to the visible indications on said direction indicator. The means forming the connections between the direction indicator 22 and the direction printing wheel 28 consists of a suitably-formed arm 24 which engages at its upper end a stud 23 on the side plate of the indicator; the arm 24 has a lower extension 25 which is prolonged as at 26 and connects with the printing wheel 28 at 27. I have described only one form of connection between the direction indicator and the direction printing wheel, but it will be understood that any suitable connection between these two devices may be provided whereby, when the direction indicator is actuated, the direction printing wheel will be likewise actuated.

From Fig. 1 it will be noted that the car travels in two directions, to witlorth and South as shown by the indicator, it therefore follows, that the extent of movement imparted to the printing wheel 28 is sufficient to present North or South in a position to be printed when the general statement, such as is shown in Fig. 6, is taken from the several printing wheels to be hereinafter referred to.

13 is a lifting bar which is an important feature of the several patents hereinbefore referred to; this bar 13 is actuated upon each operation of registering and indicating the fares, and through said bar the mechanism for tripping the wheels 2 is actuated. The

' connections between said trip wheels 2 and the bar 13 are well known, and are therefore not shown or described.

The indicators 7 (only one of which appears in Fig. 1) together with the specific fare counters 8 and their actuating wheels 9, are also well known features of my former patents hereinbefore referred to, and require no further description herein other than to state that they are mounted in printing alinement with the direction printing wheel 28 and the other printing wheels hereinafter described. Operating in connection with each set of these specific fare counters, are the well known individual members 10 which move in guides 11 and each of which is adapted to elevate the lifting bar 13 and an indicator tablet 7. when moved to actuate a specific counter. Further features comprise means for obtaining an impression upon the general statement of the machine, showing the condition of the weather, and the time of taking the statements in hours and minutes. These features are illustrated in Fig. 3 and consist of printing wheels 29 and 30 and 31 which are mounted in alinement with the specific fare printing counters and the direction printing wheel 28. On a side of each of said printing wheels 2930 and 31, there is a gear wheel which meshes with one of a series of gear wheels 3233 and 34 which are rigidly mounted upon telescopic shafts 35-36 and 37 which project outwardly on one side of the machine as shown in Fig. 1, and are there provided with index pointers 3839 and 40 which are movable to various points to indicate the matter inscribed upon a stationary dial 41 which has three concentric rows of matter. For

example, the pointer 38 is fixed to the shaft 35 on the inner end of which is fixed the gear wheel 34 that actuates the printing wheel 31 through which the conditions of the weather are recorded upon the printed statement. This weather printing wheel, it will be observed is adjacent to the direction printing wheel 28 which prints the direction of the car. The indicator pointer 40 is fixed to the telescopic shaft 36, the inner end of which carries a spur wheel 33 which actuates the unit wheel 30 of the time printing wheels.

The pointer 39 is fixed to the telescopic shaft 37 which has the gear wheel 32 that actuates the tens printing time wheel 29, which in connection with the printing wheel 30 prints the minutes of time as shown in columns HI, Fig. 6. This feature is similar to the means shown and described in former patent No. 715,129, dated December 2, ll13902, for printing the dates and the trip numers.

The printing wheel 42-Fig. 1, which is a feature of the patents hereinbefore referred to, prints the hours of time in addition to the dates of the several months as described in said patent. It will be understood that the novel features embodied in the present invention combine with the features for taking printed statements from the machine, which are embodied in several of my prior patents, and enable a complete printed statement of the service of each register for each trip or for any given period of time; such statement is illustrated in Fig. 6, where the columns ABC*DE designate the impressions taken from each of the specific fare counters, for example, column A designates the transfers collected by a conductor; column B designates the tickets; column C designates the half cash fares; and column D designates the full cash fares; E designates the total column of fare collections; column F designates the register number which is a permanent type or fixture; columns G and L designate the dates and hours-the figures in column G designating the hours, while those shown in columns H and I designate the minutes; column J designates the weather conditions, while column K designates the direction in which the car is traveling, and as per the direction indicator. Column L, as before stated, designates the dates of the month, and M designates the conductors or inspecstatement are the columns I-IIK and E which furnish a complete statement. It will thus be seen that an exhaustive or complete statement of the service of each register or car may be taken at any time; this is of great advantage for many reasons; firstit not only gives a complete and uncontradictory record of the earnings of each register or car for each trip or for any number of trips, but it identifies the conductor or other person taking such statement or statements, and it further identifies the particular register with such statement or statements, giving the dates, the time in hours and minutes, and the direction in which the car travels, together with the weather conditions, etc., and there is thus provided a concise and reliable record which may be stored away for future uses; such statement is of special advantage as a means for furnishing valuable evidence in suits which may be instituted against the company for injury to persons; for example, in an action for damages by reason ofinjuries to a person either while riding on a car or by coming in collision with a car; the date and the conditions of the weather on that particular day or night often becoming questions of considerable importance in establishing the reliability of evidence adduced by a witness called for the prosecution. As an illustration of this, a witness may be called on behalf of the prosecution, who, when called upon to state what time the accident occurred, or whether it was snowing or raining at the time or what other conditions of weather prevailed one traveling at the time is apt to make a statement which is based entirely upon a deficient memory, and consequently, would vary from the real conditions of the weather as shown by the statement taken from the register at that particular time. The testimony of such witness would be to that extent impeached and made unreliable before a jury. The printing attachments are fully described in my former Letters Patent No. 715,129, and briefly stated consist of a roll of paper 43 upon which the statements are taken; this roll is mounted in thelower hinged portion 1 of the machine and passes between feed rollers 44 and 45 below the printing wheels and devices. The platen '46 is below the paper leading from said roll and below said platen is the actuating bar 47 which is turned to elevate said platen and the papertherewith against the type wheels and printing devices to take each print or impression. The inking roller 48 is actuated to ink the printing devices at the proper time.

In Fig. 3, I have shown a modification of the means for indicating on the exterior of the register, the time and weather conditions which dispense with the employment of the indicating dials 41 and 41 and consist of a series of wheels 48 49 and 50 having on their peripheries indications of suitable import; these wheels are rigidly united to the ends of telescopic shafts 35-36and 37 before referred to and by which said wheels are movable to positions to exhibit their data through a sight opening in a frame 51 placed across the periphery of said wheels.

Briefly described, the operation of taking the printed statement referred to is as follows: At the beginning of a trip, the direction indicator 22 is turned to indicate the direction of the trip; this is done in setting the wheels 2 to zero. The act of turning said direction indicator likewise moves the direction printing wheel 28 to a position to print. The date printing wheels are set at the beginning of each days Work, and thereafter the month printing wheel is utilized for printing the hours, and the day printing wheel for printing the trip. The time wheels are set preparatory to taking each statement as is also the printing wheel which designates the conditions of the weather. The detail fare printing counters are operated upon each registration of a fare by their specific actuating members 10 which elevate the individual fare indicator of each fare, and the lifting bar 13 is actuated to operate the counters 2 at the top of the machine. The dates, and time in hours and minutes, are indicated on the dials 41 and 41 and the operation of moving the pointers over the face of said dials likewise move their cooperating printing wheels to, positions to print the date, time, and the printing wheel which prints the weather conditions.

Having described my invention, I claim:

1. In a machine of the character described, a counter, a printing device, an indicator operatively connected with the printing device to move in unison therewith, and manuallyoperated means for simultaneously and positively re-setting to zero the counter, and shifting the printing device and indicator.

2. In a machine of the character described, a counter, a shaft upon which said counter is mounted, a printing device, an indicator operatively connected with the printing device to move in unison therewith, and means for turning the counter shaft to simultaneously reset to zero the counter and shift the printing device and indicator.

3. In a machine of the character described, a counter, a printing wheel, an indicator operatively connected with the printing wheel to move in unison therewith, and manuallyoperated means for simultaneously and positively resetting to zero the counter and shifting the printing wheel and indicator.

4. In a machine of the character described, a counter, a shaft upon which said counter is mounted, a printing Wheel, an indicator operatively connected with the printing wheel to move in unison therewith, and means for turning the counter shaft to simultaneously reset to zero the counter and shift the print ing wheel and indicator.

5. In a machine of the character described, a trip counter, a direction indicator mounted on the shaft thereof, means for operating said indicator from said shaft in setting the trip counter to zero, a printing wheel to print the direction as appearing on said indicator, and connections between said printing wheel and indicator whereby, when movement is imparted to the indicator the printing wheel will be concurrently moved to a printing position. Y

6. In a machine of the character described, a fare counter, a reciprocable actuator therefor freely movable to and fro to give a step by step movement to said counter, a printing wheel, an indicator operatively connected with the printing wheel to move in unison therewith, means for simultaneously resetting to zero the fare counter and shifting the printing wheel and indicator, a plurality of fare printing counters, and impression devices for taking statements from said counters and the printing wheel.

7. In a machine of the character described, a fare counter, a reciprocable actuator therefor freely movable to and fro to give a step by step movement to said counter, a printing wheel, an indicator 0 eratively connected with the printing w ieel to move in unison therewith, and means for simultaneously resetting to Zero the fare counter and shifting the printing wheel and indicator.

8. In a machine of the character described, a fare-indicating counter, a reciprocable actuator therefor freely movable to and fro to give a step by step movement to said counter, a printing wheel, an indicator operatively connected with the printing wheel to move in unison therewith, means for simultaneously resetting to Zero the fare indicating counter and shifting the printing wheel and indicator, a plurality of specific fare printing counters, printing devices for printing the dates, and the time, and impression devices for taking statements from the fare printing counters, the printing wheel, and the date and time printing devices.

9. In a machine of the character described, a fare counter, a reciprocable actuator therefor freely movable to and'fro to give a step by ste movement to said counter, a printing wieel, an indicator 0 eratively connected with the printing w ieel to move in unison therewith, means for simultaneously resetting to Zero the counter and shifting the printing wheel and indi cator, a plurality of specific fare printing counters, other printing devices in alinement with said counters, and impression devices for taking a statement from the printing wheel, the specific fare printing counters, and the printing devices.

10. In a machine of the character described, a fare-indicating counter, a reciprocable actuator therefor freely movable to and fro to give a step by step movement to said counter, a printmg wheel, an indicator operatively connected with the printing wheel to move in unison therewith, means for simultaneously resetting to zero the fareindicating counter and shifting the printing wheel and the indicator,- a plurality of specific fare-printing counters, printing devices for printing dates, time, and a conductors identification mark, and impression devices for taking statements from the printing wheel, the specific fare printing counters, and the printing devices.

11. In a machine of the character described, a fare counter, a reciprocable actuator therefor freely movable to and fro to give a step by step movement to said counter, a printing device, an indicator operatively connected with said printing device to move in unison therewith, and means for simultaneously resetting to Zero the fare counter and shifting the printing device and indicator.

12. In a machine of the character described, a fare counter having a step by step movement, a printing wheel, an indicator operatively connected with the printing wheel to move in unison therewith, and means for simultaneously resetting to Zero the fare counter and shifting the printing wheel and indicator.

13. In a fare register, the combination with an indicator to denote the direction of the car, a printing wheel to print the direction as appearing on said indicator, and a sliding connection between the direction indicator and said printing wheel whereby movement is imparted to said wheel to set it to a position to print the direction as shown upon the indicator.

14. In a fare register, the combination with a series of trip indicator wheels, a direction indicator mounted on the shaft with said wheels, and means for operating said direction indicator from said shaft to indicate the direction of the car, of a printing wheel to print the direction as ap earing on said direction indicator, and a siding connection between said direction indicator and said printing wheel whereby movement is imparted to said printing wheel to set it in a wheel.

position to print the direction in each setting of the direction indicator.

15. In a fare register, an indicator denoting the direction of the car, a printing wheel to rint the direction as ap earing on said indicator, and a Vertically-s idable member connecting the indicator with the printing 10 In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN F. OHMER. I/Vitnesses:

O. M. THEOBALD, R. J. MCOARTY. 

